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If you own Assassin's Creed Origins for the PC, you're about to be able to customize your gameplay experience in a big way. Later this month, Ubisoft is implementing the Animus Control Panel into the game. Once it's live, you'll be able to tweak many aspects of your environment, your movements, and NPC behavior.

You can, for example, use the Animus Control Panel to increase your character's walking and riding speed, and toggle certain abilities. You can change how NPCs fight and adjust their hit boxes. You can mess with NPCs' detection distances and their movement speeds. But most importantly, you can command multiple animal companions—and Ubisoft illustrates this point with a screenshot of a small hippo army closing in on a target.

Nadia has been writing about games for so long, only the wind and the rain (or the digital facsimiles thereof) remember her true name. She's written for Nerve, About.com, Gamepro, IGN, 1UP, PlayStation Official Magazine, and other sites and magazines that sling words about video games. She co-hosts the Axe of the Blood God podcast, where she mostly screams about Dragon Quest.